[Web4lib] Libweb - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

[Wilfred Drew]

"Times they are a changin'"  Thomas, Mnay thanks for maintaining libweb for all of this time.  I remember when it first started and having you add SUNY Morrisville College Library to it.

Bill Drew

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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dowling
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 7:43 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Libweb - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

On May 24, 1994, I posted to Web4Lib:

  Rushing in where angels fear to tread, I have recklessly
  volunteered to keep a list of Library-oriented Web servers...


And so was born a little service called Libweb, which optimistically
promised to maintain a list of library home pages, back when such things
were almost rare enough to count onyour hands.

Libweb is now over 17 years old, or a spry 79 in web years (at the
official TimBL exchange rate of 2.6 months -> 1 web year:
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html).  It has outlived its first
two hosting services and is approaching the end of its third.  I seldom
find time to update it any more, and there's this thing called Google now,
which wasn't around in 1994.  It works like this:

  http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cross+plains+wi+public+library


And so I'm going to put Libweb out to pasture.  The current site will stay
up until the end of the year, at
http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/ but I won't post any more updates,
and the good folks at WebJunction will turn it off sometime in December.
My heartfelt thanks to them, to the old Berkeley SunSITE, and to the
University of Washington Libraries for hosting the site over the years.
And of course to the many library web folks who provided their URLs and
taught me so much about web design.


-- 
Thomas Dowling
Assistant Director of Library Systems - Web
  Presence and Interface Development
Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


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